Shun Medoruma 目取真俊 (born 1960) is, along with Matayoshi Eiki, one of the most important contemporary Okinawan writers. He was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1997 for his short story A Drop of Water (Suiteki).[1] (Also translated as "Droplets" by Michael Molasky, appearing in the collection of translated stories and poems from Japanese into English titled Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese literature from Okinawa.) In 2000 his short story "Mabuigumi" ("Spirit Stuffing," 1998) won the prestigious Kawabata Yasunari and Kiyama Shōhei literary prizes.[2] Medoruma also wrote the screenplay for the film Fūon:The Crying Wind, which received the Montreal Film Festival Innovation Prize in 2004, and published a novel based on the screenplay the same year. Central themes in Medoruma's literary works are the psychological after-effects of the Battle of Okinawa, the Japanese occupation and suppression of Okinawan culture and language, as well as the presence of American soldiers on the islands.
References
- ↑ "Okinawa Writers Excel in Literature" – The Okinawa Times 2000/7/21 (Retrieved on January 13, 2008)
- ↑ For translations in English of "Mabuigumi" see Medoruma Shun, “Spirit Stuffing” (Mabuigumi), translated by Kyle Ikeda in Fiction International, no. 40 (2007): 64-8 (includes Okinawan/Uchinaaguchi); and Medoruma Shun, “Mabuigumi,” translated by Kyle Ikeda, in MĀNOA: Living Spirit': Literature and Resurgence in Okinawa', vol 23, no. 1, Summer (2011): 112-134.
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